You know what it doesn't have? People in power wanting to put queer people in conversion therapy or oppress them in other ways. Which is the main reason we moved.

My daughter isn't trans, she's a lesbian, but they won't stop with trans people. They want to erase queerness in America.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

This is true. And right now, at least for the next two years, they have every bit of conceivable power there is. The President, the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court. There are no checks and balances of Donald Trump.

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We have our problems, but we haven’t just voted a literal fascist into power so we’ve got that going for us

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

True that

[–] frazorth@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

[Edit] Most countries have pretty bad surveillance. America is unique in projecting bad things on other countries without having any self reflection.

https://aithority.com/news/top-10-countries-and-cities-by-number-of-cctv-cameras/

https://archive.is/2wN7a (Archived copy)

The UK isn't great, but its not really an outlier compared to anywhere else.

China has at least 200 million cameras installed in the country. ... other countries such as the United States and Germany have 50 million and 5.2 million CCTV Cameras each. The list goes on with other countries with more than 1 million cameras. The United Kingdom has 5 million CCTV cameras installed

In fact

The United States has 15.28 CCTV cameras every 100 individuals, followed by China with 14.36 and the United Kingdom with 7.5.